Yep. Stupid people are everywhere unfortunately and Australians have somewhat of a tendency to hoard.

And then “it was our fault, and you deserve it”.

Trials are starting to happen, such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqWG2kgOKE

Like most countries, Australia is well behind China on this which already has a thriving electric truck industry.

And I’ll add that even the Australian numbers are on the relatively low side with parts of Europe approaching $12 USD per gallon for diesel. Americans have no idea how cheap fuel is there by comparison.

See what happened to Xiaomi bootloader unlocking for an example of this in action.

Usually these sort of studies include embodied emissions including all of the inputs that go into building the car. This article here: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-do-electric-vehicles-become-cleaner-than-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/

focuses on new-to-new comparisons, but if you subtract the embodied emissions of around 8M tonnes of CO2 for the model 3, it looks like the break even point using the US electricity supply in 2021 is around 4.5 years. And that is probably a bit conservative given that:

• The energy supply has gotten cleaner since then
• It is compared to a Toyota Corolla which is a quite efficient petrol car (although bulkier SUV EVs etc would come out worse too so it depends)

Of course, it also depends on how much the car is used. If you use a used ICE car extremely infrequently the crossover point will be later.

Here’s a research article I have gotten around to reading yet but you may find interesting: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S095965262300269X

You might have to go to annas-archive and the like to get the content however.

Emissions from building a EV is from memory less than the emissions from continuing to run an ICE car after only a few years. And rapid adoption would encourage more renewables into the grid and in homes further increasing the EV advantage.

I suspect there will be more seats taken by independents in this one even if a landslide occurs. Shame the Greens don’t really seem to be a factor in SA, however.

Hoping for both One Nation and the Coalition to fall short of expectations, leading to a WA 2021 style result.

I think all of these have sdcard mods now (and the 360 has long had HDD mods from memory).

Flashbacks to 2020 and trying to buy a videocard.

I consider pet ownership to be too widespread in general because it causes a massive drain on resources (and on local wildlife) while we are in a climate crisis. An even in richer countries, pets are often neglected by their owners causing widespread suffering to the pets themselves.

And I say this as someone that likes and gets on with cats and dogs; I just think there are too many of them.

They’ll just shrug and say it was worth it. Like that kid that died from measles whose parents considered death to be a better outcome than getting the vaccine.

cp --reflink is really cool as well, even if it’s just something you expect from a CoW filesystem. Being able to near instantly duplicate a file or folder and work on its copy (with only the changes taking up space) is very useful.

The risks of auto-updating now include “devs losing their shit” which has become increasingly common.